Word: specifice
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The chemist's pride, in switching world commerce around by his inventions of synthetics for natural products, swelled last week when he read the news bulletin just published by the National Geographic Society. That bulletin was specific. From coal tar,* air-nitrogen, cotton, corn & wood, chemists have been making...
(Nominee Hoover had pictured, without any specific details, a "larger visioned development" of water power and waterways, to cost the U. S. a billion dollars.)
"In the year 1926, the latest figures available show that 1/20th of 1% of the 430,000 corporations in this country earned 40% of their profits; 40% of the corporations actually lost money; one-fourth of 1% of these corporations earned two-thirds of the profits of all of them...
The answer is, not vice, but the word vice, and especially the meaning of the word vice in the historically great tradition of U. S. Puritanism. Actually the word is simply a general term signifying the opposite of virtue. If habitual kindness is a virtue, then habitual unkindness is a...
They cannot differentiate between two cigarets nor between straight Turkish or domestic tobaccos. Sight apparently is necessary to recognize a specific cigaret. This checks with the fact that smoking in the dark is less pleasurable than in the light. However, it does not account for the actual distaste that the...